What makes this silly though is that your forced to watch Cutscenes WHEN NOONE IS NEW TO THIS.

Realistically forcing people to watch cutscenes is the most stupid and lazy decision made for this. Whats worse is that its not actually that hard to rework this to eliminate the tedium.

1) Just made most of castrum an instance and change livia into a trial fight. Castrum easily fixed.
2) Make most of praetorium an instance and just make the ultima fight also a trial. Praetorium fixed.

The real issue here is that people arent gonna run this in the long term and it will end up in the same state as the alliance raids were prior to the introduction of the alliance raid finder. Its just sheer lazy patching to do so and introduces more problems than it solves.